Kindly be informed that the WYPSA Spring Dinner 2018 will be held on Thursday, 15th March 2018. Please email to rsvp@wyhkpsa.org for reservation.

Please come join us to celebrate the Chinese New Year and reconnect with familiar faces! Last year we had over 250 people in attendance including Reverend Fathers, school principals and retired as well as current teachers.

We are also delighted to announce the official sales launch of the WYPSA Centennial Edition Chronograph Watch at the Spring Dinner. You can pick up the watch offered with a 10% discount if you make early subscription via the Facebook webpage from now till Feb 20th 2018 (https://www.facebook.com/WY100thAnniversaryWatch/). You can also buy at regular price on the spot throughout the Spring Dinner.

WYPSA is delighted to announce the official sales launch of the WYPSA Centennial Edition Chronograph Watch at the Spring Dinner on Thursday, 15th March 2018. You can come and purchase the watch on the spot with a 10% discount by showing your Facebook early subscription.

Please come join us to celebrate the Chinese New Year and reconnect with familiar faces! Last year we had over 250 people in attendance including Reverend Fathers, school principals and retired as well as current teachers.

‘DSS Consultation’ tab launched

A ‘DSS Consultation’ tab has been created on this web page. You can find information related to the DSS exploration and consultation there. The content will be updated as we progress with the consultation. We will also consolidate our responses to questions we have received from stakeholders via the various channels into our regular updates of the FAQ document.

聯校家長增值課程 — 教賢課程

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Dear classmates (by bcc),

I write to inform you of the latest development of the TSW project initiated by our class and invite you to join a reunion on 25 July with classmates in San Francisco where the Wah Yan International Conference 2017 (WYIC) will be held.

Because of your enthusiastic and unfailing support, both in terms of effort and donation, the TSW tutorial project has flourished during the past two years and over 600 students have benefited from our six intakes. Starting from simply a project initiated by our class, it has now spread to alumni graduating from 1963 to as recent as 2012 from both WYHK and WYK. In fact, most tutors are from WYK now. It has also expanded from an onsite English tutorial program for forms 3 and 4 to an online oral English program for forms 5 and 6 involving many overseas alumni as tutors. The admission of our project into WYOFF last year has not only granted us formal recognition by the WY community but a charitable status, making all donations to us tax deductible in HK, USA and Canada. These developments are, by no small scale, due to the initiatives, effort and help of our classmates.

Earlier this month, an Appreciation Day was held to honor the 50+ volunteers of this project. Father Stephen Chow, supervisor of the the two WY Colleges and Tom Ho, a Board Member of WYOFF, were our guests of honor. They handed out Appreciation Certificates not only to our volunteers but also principals and head teachers from six TSW schools attending the function. An evaluation of the entire project was held immediately afterward with all participants and some improvements agreed for future intakes. A press report from Apple Daily, now included in our project website, is in the link below;

Tin Shui Wai English Tutorial Project. A Charitable Initiative of Wah Yan One Family Foundation led by Wah Yan HK 1971 Alumni

Because of the success of this project and the approach of the 100th anniversary of WYHK, Father Chow is contemplating to use it to demonstrate that WY old boys are able to enshrine the ‘Men for and with Others’ WY spirit they have learnt from their mother school in a real life situation. At the same time, the WYIC has invited me to speak on the road map of the project leading to its success in its conference because it ties in well with its theme ‘Setting the world on fire: Service as the fuel of Wahyanites’ life journey’. Since some classmates have already enrolled to attend the WYIC and to take advantage of this opportunity, a reunion of classmates led by Camillus Chan there will be held on 25 July. Participants will likely include;

Camillus Chan Yue Chou

Bill Wu Sai Fong

Anthony Chan Kai Kwong

Carl Yeung Kwok Kau

Cheng Lap Yan (from New York)

David Chu Kwok Ching (from Melbourne)

Daniel Mak Wah Hung (from HK)

You are cordially invited to join this reunion on 25 July and details will be announced later by Camillus when the no. of classmates attending is known. Pl. therefore register before end June with Camillus to whom this email is addressed.

If you plan to join also the WYIC from 21 to 23 July 2017, below is a link to its website;

For those of you who have given the TSW project your support in the past, I must express again my heart-felt appreciation and gratitude. If you have any suggestion for improvement, please let me know. For those who have not, I hope you will join us to help the under-privileged in whatever way you feel appropriate. Last but not the least, hope you can join the class reunion and the WYIC 2017 in San Francisco in July.

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Time flies. More than a month has lapsed since the 45th Anniversary Reunion Dinnerheld on Nov. 12, 2016 in our alma mater. Judging from the comments received from the participating guests, classmates and their spouses, the dinner party was a great success and everyone enjoyed it to the full. Vivid memory of the happy moments of togetherness can still be recalled based on the photos and videos taken on that day by different classmates which are now uploaded onto the class website at http://wahyanhk1971.org/photos/. In this connection, while the enrolment fee of HKD 700 for the dinner was set at 42% lower than that of HKD1,200 charged for that of the 40th Anniversary back in 2011, we OC members have managed to contain the overall expenditure within budget and achieve a minimal surplus of HKD1,176.50, or 2.4% out of the total income of HKD49,300, even after making a nominal donation of HKD2,000 to the school in appreciation of the student helpers’ work in I.T. and photography on the Reunion Day. This somehow reflects the conscientiousness and care with which we OC have exercised in our budget estimation and expenditure control. Attached please find a finalized Income & Expenditure Statement of the 45th Anniversary Dinner, which has been cleared by the entire OC. As for the said small surplus, it has been agreed unanimously within the OC to transfer it to the Class Fund held by Patrick Chan (for meeting the recurrent expenses of maintaining our class website on the Internet as well as other ad-hoc ones, e.g. expenses on wreath ).

In addition to those sponsors mentioned in my華仁’71 45周年聚餐 – 第七份通告 issued on Oct. 31, 2016, I’d like to thank Peter Lo for his sponsorship of a total of 7 bottles of wines for the golf day and the reunion dinner. I’d also like to give my thanks once again to all the choir members , singers and instrumentalists for their marvelous performances that evening, in particular to Francis Hung, Sydney Chung and Hazel Hui who delivered the song “First of May” so well. My appreciation also goes to all those overseas classmates, namely Camillus Chan, Simon Tam, Li Shing-fu and Li Shu-chuen, who participated in the live video-conferencing chats or provided us with their pre-recorded video messages beforehand, which were so well received by all the participants, and to all of my OC comrades, who had labored with me for months to get the job done.

Last but not the least, a big THANK YOU to each and every one of you buddies and your spouses, where appropriate, for coming to join in the reunion last month.

Looking forward to seeing you all again in the year 2021, i.e. the 50th Anniversary, if not earlier.

With warmest regards,

Henry Tong

Convenor, 45th Anniversary OC

P.S. Meanwhile, as a separate exercise from the 45th Anniversary Reunion, I have been trying to call for donations to support my own initiative of procuring a star on the “Wall of Stars” in WYHK (consideration set by the school at HKD10,000 each) to mark the success of our 45th Anniversary Reunion in the name of Class ‘71 . Any donor with a contribution of HKD2,000 or more will be rewarded with a copy of the book entitled “Pictorial Memories of the Jesuits in HK from 1926 to 2016” newly published on Dec 3, 2016 (second reprinting still awaited) and purchased at my own expense. So far, I have already accumulated a total sum of HKD6,000 from my fellow Taiwan tour members, still with HKD4,000 to go. I hope YOU can help me achieve this humble target of mine. Haha!

Following the implementation of small class teaching (SCT) in the two Wah Yans since 2008/2009, our Schools have been progressing well in terms of academic performance and character formation. To name but a few, our DSE and other open examinations results are continuously improving (on par with other Grant Schools and able to yield a top scorer of 7 x 5**), whilst our School Choirs and Athletic Teams have been winning top trophies in many inter-school and even worldwide contests.

Essentially, SCT has been able to provide more attention to our young Wahyanites, leading to a closer teacher-student bonding and mutual trust, and hence a higher learning morale and brotherhood, not only in the classroom but everywhere on campus and even outside Schools. Most importantly, you can see an immense fighting spirit for self-improvements and excellence among our students and teachers alike.

The Foundation is committed to support SCT and whole person development programmes for the two Wah Yans until 2019/2020, dishing out around HK$10 million+ each year. Thereafter the Schools would like to extend such initiatives for 5 more years. In other words, we need around $60 million to sustain these programmes. We are working hard on the fundraising plan to achieve this target. And we are rolling out the first fundraising initiative now – Voice of Wah Yan 2017, a Pop-singing Contest:

Enrolment Deadline: 5 December 2016
Fee: $30,000 per team (as donation to support SCT at the two Wah Yans, hence tax-deductible)

Music is an integral part of education at Wah Yan, where many Wahyanites have been able to voice out their emotions and thoughts, in solitude or through jamming with fellow schoolmates. Let’s join hand to keep these fighting spirit and brotherhood going, for it will empower our boys to pursue new heights in their studies and personal development. Enclosed please find the poster, enrolment/donation form and award images for perusal and disseminations to your students, parents, teachers and staff members and alumni. Enrol/donate now, we want to gather all of you to support the Schools!

Please call me on 9092 9433 if you need further information. See you all at the Voice. Thank you very much again for your support.